List of lighthouses in Namibia
This is a of lighthouses in Namibia.
Lighthouses
Name | Location | Coordinates | Year built |
Structure | Focal plane |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cape Cross | Cape Cross | 21°46′20″S 13°57′20″E / 21.77222°S 13.95556°E | 1955-11 | 23 m tower | 30 m MSL | [1] |
Dias Point | Lüderitz | 26°38′11″S 15°05′37″E / 26.63639°S 15.09361°E | 1910-10-01 | 28.8 m masonry tower | 53 m HW | [2][3] |
Farilhao Point | 22°09′31.08″S 14°17′17.11″E / 22.1586333°S 14.2880861°E | 1975 | 15 m pole | 21.8 m MSL | discontinued 1989-02 [2] | |
Möwe Point | 19°22′47.85″S 12°42′29.02″E / 19.3799583°S 12.7080611°E | 1979-02-05 | 10 m pole | 29.2 m MSL | [4] | |
Pelican Point | Walvis Bay | 22°53′26″S 14°26′12″E / 22.89056°S 14.43667°E | 1915-06-15, 1932-05-01 | 31 m cast iron tower | 34 m HW | [5] |
Swakopmund | Swakopmund | 22°40′32″S 14°31′29″E / 22.67556°S 14.52472°E | ~1903 | 28 m masonry tower | 35 m HW | [6][7] |
Terrace Bay | 20°02′55.32″S 13°03′09.91″E / 20.0487000°S 13.0527528°E | 1979-02-13 | 6 m pole | 36.9 m MSL | [4] | |
Toscanini | 20°49′57.94″S 13°23′48.16″E / 20.8327611°S 13.3967111°E | 1975-05 | 15 m pole | 25.9 m MSL | discontinued 1989-06 [1] |
Gallery
- Swakopmund Lighthouse
- Pelican Point Ligthouse
- Dias Point Lighthouse
- Original Shark Island Lighthouse
See also
References
- Lighthouses of South Africa. Portnet. 1991. ISBN 0-620-16367-4.
- Williams, Harold A. (1993). Southern lights: lighthouses of Southern Africa. Rivonia: William Waterman publications. ISBN 0-9583751-1-9.
- 1 2 Portnet (1991), p.10.
- 1 2 Portnet (1991), p.8.
- ↑ Williams (1993), p.105.
- 1 2 Portnet (1991), p.12.
- ↑ Portnet (1991), p.7.
- ↑ Portnet (1991), p.13.
- ↑ http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/nam.htm
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